Svbtle for Wordpress

http://gravityonmars.com/2012/03/28/svbtle-based-on-wordpress/

by ricardorauch • 14 years ago

93 33 14 years ago

This is not the first post about Svbtle. It only tries to show how you can easily build the same product in WordPress. Go to GitHub to get this project.

THE INTERFACE

When I read about Svbtle just seemed to me to write great enter without stop from view. Having a list where these ideas “cooking” and another where the already published is just great. Only someone with experience doing great publications could accomplish this interface.

TECHNOLOGY BEHIND

Since I did not want to ignore the features already offered by WordPress and reinvent the wheel by creating a login system, writing (drafts and published), optimizations of queries, features that are not visible to the user’s eyes as the cache (WP Super Cache) , pushState (WP History.js) and minimize js and css files (BWP Minify).

pace• 14 years ago

Incredible how Svbtle got popular and a creator who doesn't seem to be too happy about its evolution. Good read on that http://therain.posterous.com/dustin-curtis-single-mistake-wi...

delinka• 14 years ago

While I agree with the premise of your posted link, the grammar starts falling apart later in the post. Seems to have some logical leaps there at the end as well. Just seems like the author is not a native English speaker I suppose.

pdelgallego• 14 years ago

The Streisand effect in all its glory

vikvik• 14 years ago

I am very confused. The author of the article writes that svbtle could have been the next tumblr. It's like saying my clean design html could have been the future facebook.

I think svbtle has a clean design and a good interface, nothign more.

If my instincts here are wrong, then I have to question my understanding and all the IT experience I have. I might be missing a big part of this svbtle and obtvse controversy.

j_c2• 14 years ago

Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology.

Copycats can build the technology, but that's it. All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.

MatthewPhillips• 14 years ago

> All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.

Events of the past week suggest the technology is the only part that anyone's really interested in.

ssharp• 14 years ago

> Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology.

I wasn't sure who Curtis was, so I looked him up. From his own sites, it wasn't apparent at all. I guess he is a superhero or villain, depending on which site of his you look at.

So why is his brand so strong?

nullflux2• 14 years ago

Because he does two things really well that build huge brands around specific people:

1. Acts like he knows everything and acts like a polarizing, arrogant ass

(I've never met him, so who knows if he actually is an arrogant ass. The majority of people I have met that act like that seem not to be IRL. It's often a persona.)

2. Consistently writes blog posts that cause a lot of controversy (e.g. get people fired, give more famous people you know a spotlight to write content for you, etc.)

I'm not bashing Curtis with the above, even though my tone seems pejorative. It's just true, and it's the same way most political talking heads and radio personalities work. Curtis is basically something like the Howard Stern of the YC set.

huggyface3• 14 years ago

All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews

What are those aspects?

Honestly, I'm not seeing it. I see this as a profound example of the cult of personality.

j_c2• 14 years ago

PR / Marketing / Brand — All aspects of the cult of a personality.

jh32• 14 years ago

So much publicity for Curtis over the last couple weeks.

samstave3• 14 years ago

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

antidaily• 14 years ago

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

jh32• 14 years ago

Haha, no problem at all.

puppybeard• 14 years ago

I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice.

I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?

dpritchett• 14 years ago

It's called writer's block and it's pretty much universal. The point is to streamline the content creation process so that there are no distractions between you and the work. Hopefully produce more and better work when you can really focus on the craft. Once a blog post gets to the "nearly finished" state then you can deal with the 5000 options WordPress offers around every post, such as tags and crosslinking old posts and formatting and url slugs and and and...

sycren• 14 years ago

I agree and sometimes its nice to have an uncluttered interface to work with.

I find it easier to work with a full screen minimalistic editor [1,2] when writing than say word..

1 http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ 2 http://www.ommwriter.com/

rkudeshi• 14 years ago

Is this a WordPress theme or a modification of the backend admin view?

atourgates• 14 years ago

It's both.

chrisguitarguy• 14 years ago

It's a theme and an alternate admin area. From the code on github[1], it looks like you drop the theme[2] in as normal (in `wp-content/themes`). Then you put the `wp-svbtle` directory in the same directory as your wordpress install.

Doesn't really replace the built in WordPress admin area, just adds another one.

1. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle 2. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle/tree/master/wp-co...

nullflux2• 14 years ago

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of using such a system? It's like installing all of Windows 7 Ultimate just to run Notepad.

philip1209• 14 years ago

Did anybody try this in a multiuser Wordpress install?

alanh2• 14 years ago

This is great — solves the big problem that would keep me, personally, from blogging on Svbtle, and a lesson I learned from my startup (see link): Basically, new blog platforms kinda suck due to a lack of features/interop/import/export/customizability. See: http://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms for the story.

nhebb• 14 years ago

Using the same name makes it sound like it's a product of Curtis'. At least Obtvse had the sense to use a different name.

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